Multiple Intelligences and Learning Styles

Time and concrete materials, science kits, games like chess, brainteasers, and computers

• Musical

• Spatial

• Verbal Linguistic

• Logical Mathematical

Learn by touching, actively explore the physical world, hands-on approach

• Musical

• Kinesthetic

• Verbal Linguistic

• Logical Mathematical

Learn through seeing - watch teacher's body language and facial expressions to understand the content, visual displays, diagrams, illustrated books, overheads, videos, flip charts, and handouts, they take detail notes to absorb information

• Visual

• Kinesthetic

• Verbal Linguistic

• Logical Mathematical

peer group dynamics, school and community activities

• Intrapersonal
• Musical 
• Interpersonal
• Naturalist

teach with images, picture, color, cameras, telescopes, 3D building supplies, art supplies

• Intrapersonal

• Musical

• Interpersonal

• Visual-Spatial

private spaces for quiet introspection, respect privacy, and acknowledge that it's alright to be independent

• Intrapersonal

• Musical

• Interpersonal

• Visual-Spatial

explore outdoors, bring outdoors in, books, visuals, props related to the natural world, observation notebooks of natural phenomena, draw natural objects, provide with binoculars, telescopes, microscopes

• Intrapersonal

• Naturalist

• Interpersonal

• Visual-Spatial

talk to them, give books, recordings, opportunities to use writing skills

• Intrapersonal

• Naturalist

• Verbal-Linguistic

• Visual-Spatial

Children run through an obstacle course.

• Bodily-Kinesthetic

• Naturalist

• Verbal-Linguistic

• Visual-Spatial

Children are given instruments to play along with the welcome song

• Bodily-Kinesthetic

• Naturalist

• Verbal-Linguistic

• Musical